The polls on Thursday non-stop during 06:00 (03:00 GMT) with tens of thousands of military and other certainty staff deployed to strengthen electorate and polling stations.

International observers have scaled down their missions for certainty reasons.

Unconfirmed reports contend military have dismissed live rounds into a atmosphere to sunder antithesis supporters in a western city of Kisumu and a Kibera area of Nairobi. Tear gas has also been used.

A voting central in Kisumu – antithesis personality Raila Odinga’s home city – told a BBC usually dual of 400 polling hire officials had incited adult there, fearing they could face danger for holding partial in a election.

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Riot military try to sunder Odinga supporters in a Kibera slums in Nairobi

One voter in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, cab motorist David Njeru, 26, told a AFP news agency: “It is my avocation to vote. Last time a reserve was all around a retard and we waited 6 hours to vote, this time a people are few.”

After casting his opinion in a city of Gatundu, Mr Kenyatta urged people to expel their ballots so a nation could pierce on.

“We’re sleepy as a nation of electioneering. It’s time we changed forward,” he said.

He pronounced many of Kenya was “calm and peaceful”

Voting underneath armed guard

Analysis: BBC Africa Editor Fergal Keane in Nairobi

Here during Moi primary propagandize a tiny reserve of people is backing adult to opinion underneath despotic security. Armed military are on ensure nonetheless this is an area some stretch from any antithesis strongholds.

But in antithesis strongholds like Kisumu there are reports of dull polling stations and choosing officials too aroused to spin adult for work. Some teargas has been dismissed during demonstrators in a Nairobi allotment of Kibera.

Western diplomats have called for ease and negotiations and cursed what they pronounced were efforts to criticise a choosing elect and a judiciary. Though they don’t contend it outright, a US and UK ambassadors and others don’t seem to have good certainty in this stream electoral process.

What has happened given a initial vote?

The proclamation by a Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) of Mr Kenyatta’s feat on 8 Aug led to inflammatory tongue and attacks on a body.

About 50 people are reported to have been killed in assault given Mr Kenyatta was announced a personality in August’s election.

Mr Odinga had wanted a repeat list to be hold during a after date, though a bid to check a choosing re-run fell detached after usually dual of 7 Supreme Court judges attended a conference on Wednesday.

One judge, Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu, unsuccessful to seem after her bodyguard was shot and bleeding by different gunmen on Tuesday.

What went wrong in August?

Kenya’s Supreme Court took a rare preference to cancel a Aug presidential choosing and direct a re-run in Sep citing “irregularities and illegalities”.

Chief Justice David Maraga pronounced a choosing had not been “conducted in suitability with a constitution” and announced it “invalid, nothing and void”.